What is it that Feliks so good?

[teller]

Roots in Petrus make for much stronger CFOP.

 

[RCTACameron]

If you look at his example solve videos, he does know a lot of tricks, and his solves are efficient. Also amazing lookahead and tps, which come with practice.

 

[Andrew Ricci]

One of the best things about his solves is his ability to execute the cross+first pair like a PLL - uber fast and with full confidence.

I'd say confidence is one of the most important parts of getting fast times. A lot of the time, if I find an X-Cross, I can only execute it at ~4-5 TPS, since I don't have to the confidence to do it as fast as a normal cross. Similar things happen throughout the rest of my solves, mostly during the four pairs.

Also because he's Australian.

Oh yeah, because there are so many fast Australians in 3x3.

 

[waffle=ijm]

Roots in Petrus make for much stronger CFOP.

Rowe

 

[ElectricDoodie]

I'm really glad I was here when Zeroing came about.
Or else, I would be confused as sh*t.

 

[Escher]

Also because he's Australian.

Norly I'm serious I think nationality/culture has a great deal to do with ability to perform under pressure

 

[Cubenovice]

If you look at his example solve videos, he does know a lot of tricks, and his solves are efficient. Also amazing lookahead and tps, which come with practice.

True, but if you check the reconstructions of his competition solves you'll see that he is not using a lot of tricks in those.

 

[cubersmith]

Practice and zeroing

haha.

Norly I'm serious I think nationality/culture has a great deal to do with ability to perform under pressure

Ya, people of certain areas of the world, are sometimes better than others at certain things. Australians could be more dextrous than Europeans and Americans for example. I don't know if this is true or not, just a theory.

 

[Cube Equation]

Ya, people of certain areas of the world, are sometimes better than others at certain things. Australians could be more dextrous than Europeans and Americans for example. I don't know if this is true or not, just a theory.

I doubt it. There aren't that many fast cubers in Australia when comparing to the rest of the world. And I'm definitely an example of an Australian with terrible dexterity.

 

[TimMc]

Practice. Concentration. Stringing a coherent sentence together.

:fp @ zeroing

Tim.

 

[cubersmith]

I doubt it. There aren't that many fast cubers in Australia when comparing to the rest of the world. And I'm definitely an example of an Australian with terrible dexterity.

I said I didn't know if it was true, but it is a fact that different regions of the world contain people with different types of DNA, and therefore, can do things differently.

 

[TimMc]

There aren't that many fast cubers in Australia when comparing to the rest of the world.

I was intrigued by this statement so I decided to do a basic breakdown:

Country		Total	# <15s	<15s %	# <13s	<13s %	# <10s	<10s %	# <8s	<8s %
Australia	96	11	11.46%	5	5.21%	1	1.04%	1	1.04%
Thailand	271	41	15.13%	15	5.54%	3	1.11%	0	0.00%
Italy		213	28	13.15%	16	7.51%	1	0.47%	0	0.00%
UK		123	14	11.38%	7	5.69%	2	1.63%	0	0.00%
France		431	28	6.50%	11	2.55%	1	0.23%	0	0.00%
Poland		329	46	13.98%	18	5.47%	2	0.61%	0	0.00%
USA		2730	144	5.27%	58	2.12%	3	0.11%	0	0.00%

I suppose graphs are more interesting... fun.

Tim.

 

[Escher]

What I said was partly in jest, but as a pet theory I do think that to some extent personality types and approaches are affected by culture, and since certain personalities tend to be better at performing under pressure, culture may have some effect.

I'm definitely not gonna say anything about DNA. Especially since Faz is mostly Latvian.

 

[Stefan]

Especially since Faz is mostly Latvian.

And Lithuanian.

 

[That70sShowDude]

His posture while solving.

 

[Yuxuibbs]

His brain.
I got confused at his example solves.... mostly because he's color neutral and I'm not. Even when he did cross on white it almost seemed like he plans a whole pair ahead or more.

 

[Thompson]

Practice.

Disagree! Feliks obviously has something special to him that makes him so fast. Im sure there are many people who practice way more than he does, he just has the natural ability to get faster.

 

[nickcolley]

Maybe it's just because he's colour neutral.

 

[drewsopchak]

Everybody knows he secretly does quad multislotting, and only practices in competition. (secret everybody knows)

 

[chrissyD]

WTF?

ever noticed some countries are simply better at doing certain things than others?

for example Germany makes cars much better than any other country. Same might apply to cubing. Can't really think of any other examples without being stereotypical >__<